Thanks. Just to be clear for everyone, I am not intending to show WDW74 up, I am simply trying to see if there is a vast difference in operating hours over the years. It comes up a lot. While this small sample does not necessarily prove that point either way, it does lend some food for thought. I do appreciate that WDW74 posted all of those old schedules.
If you aren't trying to show me up then you're one of the few here.
Thanks for the restraint!:ROFLOL:
But I am (or was as I'm not sure there's enough people reading to make this work worthwhile) showing a cross section of hours.
Your comparison is simply one month in 1989 to the same month this year. I don't think that any conclusions about long term trends can be found from a one month deal.
And while I am not surprised that MK and Studios have more hours in 2008 (the first two weeks of December were dead back in the 70s and 80s and I was at WDW around that period in '89 and recall the same).
But you are way off on EPCOT's comparison because they didn't do the split (9-7, 11-9) deal back then. So just on the 9-9 days you got half the park for two hours more ... and there are no 8-11 days this month at all ... and they even cut an hour off NYE as well.
Again, it's very hard to do a numbers comparison based on the way EPCOT is now run (a much less guest friendly way IMHO) where parts close at different hours and even then it isn't clear (keeping the thrill rides in FW open til 9 for instance) ... so again, I don't know how you'd do a fair comparison ... but I do know guests are getting less at the park.
And if you used one of my first months (say June 1990) to compare you'd see just how much less people get now.
Of course, I could pull schedules from the late 80s where say MK was 9-6 or 9-7 every day in October and EC was 9-8 or 9-9 at the same time ...
It isn't easy to draw conclusions except in the biggest picture way.
But thanks for reading!
